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First post, by remi020878

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I recently bought a Socket 3 motherboard, it looks very different to garden varieties of mobos. It has 2 chips marked "Write back chip" and I can't see any Cache memory on it. It is a VLB board and supposedly supports 3.3v cpus. It has 4 ISA and 3 VLB connectors. All ISA ports are white. In one corner it says V6.1 which I am assuming is the revision of the board. On the bottom side it has P&Q mark. Can't find anything on Google. Any info on it would be awesome. Picture attached below. Thank you.

Reply 2 of 4, by remi020878

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Thanks!! That really helps!!

Reply 3 of 4, by Horun

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Yes a m912 v6.1. It has no cache, too bad is not the v1.4 or v1.7 as they came with sockets and mostly had real cache......
added: You can use the v1.7 jumpers settings iirc: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcchip … 7-486#downloads

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Reply 4 of 4, by LewisRaz

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I had the 1.4 which did have real cache. Seems a bit of a lottery still

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